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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1433506217MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"Disgusting" is a word you use when someone vomits in a restaurant. The word I would use is "unconscionable" or "abhorrent". What the Idaho Legislature did was consciously decide to cut life saving medical care in a time of crisis to thousands of its most medically vulnerable people in order to give a 19.5% state income tax cut to themselves and Idaho's wealthiest residents. This isn't disgusting, it is about as close to treason and human cruelty as a government entity in the United States can get away with without legal criminal prosecution. If I believed in a just God and voted to do this to His most vulnerable people placed in my charge, I would fear lighting for the rest of my natural life. I hope they enjoy their tax cuts and spend it quickly, because they won't be able to take it with
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1433506217MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</A> [<A href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom Hansen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 02, 2012 4:10 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Moscow Vision 2020<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Tax Cut on Higher Incomes Advances</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></div></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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